"Not 'Hollywood Independent' - writer John Oak Dalton is the real Real Thing." --Cinema Minima."Very weird and unpopular b-movies and comics."--Blogalicious. "After watching the film I am left to wonder if he had some childhood trauma he is not telling us about."--IMDB user review. "Screenwriter John Oak Dalton wanted to be in Hollywood. Instead, he's in the rustic kitchen above the Germania General Store, stirring a pot of boiling hot dogs."
--The Harrisburg Patriot-News.

Monday, April 26, 2004

Hungry Like the Wolf

I wanted to do "24 Hour Comics Day" on Saturday, but real life intervened as usual, and I spent about nine hours taking sledgehammer and shovel to my backyard fence, at the state of collapse after the winter and recent storms.

Some D&D humor: We were trying to dig out the fenceposts, most of which were sunk in big bulbs of cement, when my son got frustrated and just grabbed one and started pulling, yanking it out of the earth with a big ball of concrete still stuck on the end. "I must have rolled a natural 20," he said.

I didn't feel too bad that night, but the next morning I was creaking and sore. I hadn't felt that old in a long time. I was kind of limping around, feeling sorry for myself, and wondering what I have to contribute to the larger world. Don't open your mouth when you're refilling the water softener. That's about all I know for sure.

JOE: Hmm, that stinks then. Which one did Quasar make a guest appearance in?
I think that no matter what book it is, it needs to be renamed, the titles on these books all suck. Kickers Inc, Star Brand and Spitfire and the Troubleshooters sound like they should be competeing against Gem and the Holograms and The Misfits in the battle of the bands. DP7 sounds like a porn movie
I guess I'll go with the least crappy sounding title, Marc Hazzard: Merc. The local used book store has a ton of New Universe books for a quarter each. Maybe I should flip through them and see what looks best.

ME: Ironically, I believe MARK HAZZARD: MERC was first written by Peter David.